Steven Tyler remembered the Woodstock festival like this

Gary Graff of Classic Rock recalled the interview he did at Woodstock ’94 with the frontman of AerosmithSteven Tyler. In this, the American musician told how he managed to be in the audience at the original Woodstock, which took place in Bethel in August 1969. It was chance that allowed the then 21-year-old Tyler to go to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair: he was supposed to perform a concert in Greenwich Village in New York, which was cancelled at the last minute.

Steven Tyler He seized the opportunity and, together with a friend and a tent, drove to Woodstock.

“I came, I saw, I conquered,” Tyler said. At the historic festival he also met the future drummer of .Aerosmith, Joey Kramerbut was “so high I couldn’t talk.” “I remember it being a great place to get high. People would walk around with water guns filled with acid, spraying you in the face. You’d trip over them in minutes. It was another generation. Drugs were really the thing to do… There were 450,000 people floating in the air, running around naked, laughing and screaming.”

About music, Tyler recalled pitching his tent on the grounds of the Hog Farm and walking a path called Groovy Way every day to the stage. “I remember Country Joe & the Fish, Janis Joplin, Santana, The Who… Music was my salvation.” Steven Tyler He ended up staying at the festival site longer than expected because heavy rains prevented his car from returning home. He and his friend stayed a day and a half longer and took home as a souvenir a Coca-Cola refrigerator that Tyler still had in 1994.

The latest news on Steven Tyler they Aerosmith are not the best. The group announced at the beginning of the month that would have withdrawn from the farewell tour called ‘Peace Out’ due to Tyler’s vocal cord injury in September 2023. The band said in a statement that Tyler “has spent months working tirelessly to restore his voice to its pre-injury state. We’ve watched him struggle despite having the best medical team by his side. Unfortunately, it’s clear that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible.”